Mexico may revoke or renegotiate current LR privileges

[Joel.B]

  Current  situations prompted a revaluation and possible package that would revoke/renegotiate all current U.S privileges and encourage development of a premium LR fleet out of Ensenada. San Diego LR fleet has never brought much economic benefit to Mexico.  Mexican fisherman have always felt the agreement unfair that US boats with US fisherman can depart US ports and fill holds with premium Mexican fish w/o spending a cent on Mexican soil.   

[Vintage Offshore Tackle]

If any of the cartels were looking for a legit business to launder their money, that would be a great opportunity.  They could easily afford to make offers for the RP, RR, Excel, Indy and Intrepid that would be too good for the owners to refuse, and hire the best crews, and then build a fleet of state of the art sportfishers and set up same day fish processing and luxury ground transportation between San Diego and Ensenada.

[Joel.B]

"Cartels" is such a junk term now.  But you pretty much nailed it as I understand it- some of the people who have already developed some pretty decent ports and marinas, resorts all along Mx, Central and South America are behind this. Some of those marinas are insanely luxurious and empty as they will remain but their actual mission was accomplished.  Many of larger organizations that made their mountains of money narcotrafficking- own some of the nicest resorts in Mexico. Golf courses, hotels, condos...farms...more than half of Cabos biggest resorts are Narco owned.

[oc1]

This is probably a response to the current political situation.  But, good for Mexico.  They should have done it a long time ago.  Businessmen are businessmen regardless of what you call them.  Point-one percenters, robber barons or narco-traffickers, they're all the same.

[Brewcrafter]

I think this is a little bit of a stretch.  Neither Mexico or the Long Range Fleet wants to see any of this going away, AND they all know sudden "changes" aren't good for anyone. - john

[boon]

Bordering on politics, but if you're going to play hardball on trade and diplomatic relations, this is the kind of thing that will happen.

[jurelometer]

Any source for this report of a potential change?

-J

[Gfish]

Interesting, the Cartel aspect. Gangsters get rich and go legit, then new younger operators probably take over the vacated criminal enterprise and it never ends.

[Hardy Boy]

Bordering on politics, but if you're going to play hardball on trade and diplomatic relations, this is the kind of thing that will happen.

It's not surprising at all. Similar actions may happen in other places.

Cheers

Todd